#All of these characters would listen to tøp and I stand by that they're all edgy fucks

[eleanorpowers]

Hello all for the game tumblr,

With seven weeks until The Golden Raven comes out, and my endless need to gab about this series, I've come up with an idea.

Every week leading up to the book release, I'll share the Spotify playlist I've created for an aftg character. Every day that week, I'll share one song from the playlist and wax poetic about all the ways it connects to the character.

I already have which characters I'm going to do and an order in mind, so without further adieu I give you week one:

And our song for day one is the very first song on the playlist!

Run and Go is a perfect representation of where Neil's journey is at when The Foxhole Court ends. As far as he is concerned he just indirectly caused Seth's death, and now should be the time that he runs. He's been running his entire life. But for some reason, even though he'll be dead or in fbi custody by the end of the year, he stays.

And you can view the song as an internal monologue towards either himself or Andrew. It works either way, and I see both mingling throughout the song. Perhaps even more interestingly, the song itself is related to religion, something something being sinful and undeserving of God who you've indirectly killed by sinning.

While I don't see any world where Neil is calling on help from a higher being, he certainly is beginning to recognize that he needs someone to rely on outside of himself. His shit is too much to carry on his own. And still, he doesn't want to drag Andrew into this.

But of course Andrew ends up being the one thing "that [can] hold him and all of his problems up without breaking a sweat". The one who stops him in his tracks and keeps his attention and makes him want to stay, rather than keep running.